Susanne Bosch

Wesel, Germany, 1967

Vive y trabaja en/Lives and works in Belfast and Berlin.

Carries out site-specific, gallery and context-based installations, films, drawings, objects, publications and collaborative event-based projects. Her work is usually based on long-term research questions such as the role and potential of art in contested societies and situations.

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES/SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
  • Themen, die nicht zählen, Orte, die nicht wichtig sind, Kunstverein,Würzburg.
2004
  • Mensch weg/ Insan yitmis / Meri helazbune (human disappeared), sox36, Berlin.
2004
  • ATA, Galerie35, Berlin.
2001
  • Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, SchmidtBank-Gallery, Nürnberg.
  • Installation and Interviews, Left-over Penny Campaign, Gallery sox36, Berlin.
1998
  • Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, Gallery Kohlenhof, Nürnberg.

EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS/SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
  • Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso di Firenze, Fondazione SisteExhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. ma Toscana, Florence, Italia.
  • The History of Crisis II, curated by Tessa Gibbin and Monica Nunez, Project Room Dublin and Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Ireland. Exhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul, BM SUMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Istanbul. 2008 THE COMMON GOOD: The Enterprise of Art, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli.
2007
  • PAN SCREENING, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli. Rubin, Contemporary Museum of Art & Design, Nürnberg.
2006
  • Daily artist at the XV BIENNALE DE PARIS, online shop with designs by Susanne Bosch, snebtor, María Linares, France. Visa Quartett at Rundgang, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.
2005
  • Institute for experience with the unknown, soundinstallation in the belltower of the Galleria della Provincia de Modena / Chiesa di San Paolo and Chiesa delle Monache, in the frame of The Bauhaus moves / La Bauhaus si muove, artists of the Bauhaus-University Weimar being guests in Modena.
2002
  • Kunstbank, Berlin (together with Marisa Maza/ exhibition of Berlin Senate stipends) Währungswechsel/ change of value, Städtische Gallery Fürth, Deutschland. 2000 SomaVision, Art and Media Centre Adlershof, Berlin.
  • Wettbewerb U2 Alexanderplatz (collaboration with Ulrike Dornis and Jens Hanke) competition for subway-station U2, NGBK, Berlin. Goldrausch XI _unterwegs/ Goldrausch XI_on tour, Presentation at Kunstbunker Nuremberg / Kunstraum Düsseldorf/ halle_für_kunst Lüneburg/art forum, Art Fair Berlin.
1999
  • Wie Macht Kunst?/ What Makes Art?, Fridericianum, Kasseler Kunstverein (collaboration with Vollrad Kutscher), Kassel.
  • Materials, Künstlerhaus Bremen.
  • Sozialmaschine Geld (social-machine money), O.K., Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria (collaboration with V.Kutscher) Klinik, Morphing Systems (.collaboration with Stephan Kurr), Zürich.
1997
  • Germinations 9, Villa Arson, Nice, France Förderpreisträgerausstellung, Kunsthaus Nürnberg. Germinations 9, Tutesall/ Chateau de Bourglinster, Luxembourg.
1996
  • Germinations 9, Prague, Castle, Czech Republic KunstRaumFranken, Kunsthalle Nürnberg.

PROYECTOS DE ARTE PÚBLICO/PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2009–2010
  • Madrid Abierto 2009-2010, public art intervention in Madrid.
2009
  • Verwunderlich, dass Ihr Euch wundert, aber wir tun es auch. Multimedia Installation in Cafe Kotti, Berlin (contribution to the exhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul). An•nex, Homage to John Cage '4'33', public intervention, Boyd Park, Belfast, Susanne Bosch in collaboration with Dragan Miloshevski & Michelle Moloney, Northern Ireland.
  • AGENCY, Billboard in public space, Berlin.
2008
  • Art, Media and Contested Space, Billboard in public space, Belfast Biennale 2008, Northern Ireland THE COMMON GOOD: The Enterprise of Art, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli.
2007–8
  • WHOSE VOICE IS IT ANYWAY?, Migrant-Media-Project in Belfast with screenings: 2MOVE: IRELAND, Belfast/Navan, NVTV/Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2007
  • IKEA says HOME is the most important place, FIX07 - 7th International Performance Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • A viewing, public intervention in collaboration with Sandra Johnston and Marilyn Arsem, Out Of Site 2007, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Performative event APPROPRIATE in collaboration with Alma Suljevic, (Sarajevo), Marilyn Arsem (Boston) and Sandra Johnston (Belfast), Northern Ireland.
  • Top trumps Polish Migrants at Northbound Conference, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
2006
  • Mobile economies at Permanent moving, DGB Haus Berlin and public space Berlin-Schöneberg. Top trumps Work Migration at Out Of Site 2006, Performance in public space, Fringe Festival Dublin, Ireland.
2005
  • Institute for experience with the unknown, soundinstallation in the belltower of the Galleria della Provincia de Modena / Chiesa di San Paolo and Chiesa delle Monache, in the frame of The Bauhaus moves / La Bauhaus si muove, Modena. 2004 Hic bir yere gidememek/ Nirgendwo Ankommen/ To arrive nowhere I-III, Café MittenMang and outdoor in Reuterkiez, Berlin.
  • WG/3Zi/K/Bar, Düsseldorf.
  • LOCK YOUR MIND, Apartman Project Space, Istanbul. Káko ßi dúschitschke mója? / How are you, my little soul? Lovesongs for Gropiusstadt, sound installation in an elevator in Gropiusstadt, Berlin.
1998–2002
  • Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, art in public space project with collection sites in Wuhlheide, Berlin, centre of Nuremberg, Marienplatz, Munich, Alexanderplatz, Berlin.
1996–97
  • Curriculum Vitae, poster action in Prague, Nuremberg, Nice and Luxembourg

PROYECTOS CURATORIALES/SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

4–2009
  • Open Space Learning Exchange, in collaboration with Dr. Cherie Driver and Jo Töpfer, Connswater, Northern Ireland.
8–2008
  • Summer School Art in Public, Open Space Technology Training, in collaboration with Dr. Cherie Driver, Jo Töpfer, Michael M Pannwitz, Connswater, Northern Ireland.
9–2007
  • Summer School Art in Public, Artistic Communication Forms in Spaces of Social Interaction, Belfast, in collaboration with Catalyst Arts, Francis Zeischegg, Ailbhe Murphy and Ele Carpenter, CatalystArts Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2006
  • 13 Monday Night Lectures, TEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS in cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.
2005–06
  • 12 Monday Night Lectures, ART AND COMMEMORATION, in cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.
2004
  • 12 Monday Night Lecture, NEW ARTISTIC STRATEGIES, in Cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.
2001–2002
  • member of Kunstcoop© , www.kunstcoop.de in collaboration with the NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft Bildende Kunst, Berlin and the artists Nanna Lüth, Carmen Mörsch, Ana Bilankov, Bill Masuch, Ulrike Stutz, Maria Linares), Berlin.
10–2000–12–2002
  • Initiator of the sox36 - space in Oranienstrasse 175 in Berlin, Kreuzberg, Deutschland in cooperation with Alessio Trevisani/dancer, Stephan Kurr/artist, Marbo Becker/actor.
1996–97
  • Co-curator with Christina Oberbauer of the yearbook/ Jahrbuchs 1997 walking through society Institute of Modern Art Nürnberg,Germany, 15 positions on site-specific or interventional artwork: Guerrilla Girls, Olav Westphalen, Ute Meta Bauer/ Fareed Armaly, Sabine Kammerl, Bernard Brunon/Jade Dellinger, Rikrit Tiravanija, Maria Eichhorn, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Iris Häussler, Shedhalle Zürich.

ACTIVIDAD ACADÉMICA/ACADEMIC RELATED ACTIVITIES

 
  • since 2006 Lecturer in Fine Art Research, Interface Art and Its Locations / FOCUS: Art in Contested Spaces and Art & Documentation, University of Ulster, Belfast / Northern Ireland | Course Director of the MA Art in Public.
2005–2006
  • Assistant professor of the international MFA-programme Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

CONFERENCIAS/LECTURES

7–2009
  • The Pre-History of Crisis II, round table discussion, Belfast Exposed, Belfast,Northern Ireland.
2–2009
  • Urban Buddy Scheme, Conference, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
11–2008
  • Decision committee meeting in PAN, Napoli.
10–2008
  • Art, Media and Contested Space, panel member, MAC, Belfast Biennale, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2–2008
  • Culture moves, Symposia on Art in Social Context, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, München.
2–2008
  • Public-Private: Art in Public Space, Symposia in Cultural Theory, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn.
2000–2002
  • Artist-talks in Weimar (ACC-Gallery and Bauhaus- University), Nuremberg (University and Städtische Gallery Fürth), Frankfurt a.M., Halle (University), Kunsthaus Bremen, Berlin (NBK and artist-run-gallery Weiss), Gallery KS Würzburg, Deutschland.
7–2007
  • Die pARTizipanten, KOMM, lecture and workshop to develop a public art tender for the city of Nuremberg, Nürnberg.
6–2007
  • Poland in Northern Ireland, lecture, Social Change and Resistance, conference, Gdansk, Poland.
6–2007
  • ART RADIO LIVE, radio talk for Venice Biennale, www.wps1.org, invited by PS1, PAN, and the Perna Foundation, Italia.
5–2007
  • Scientific Committee member for the EU project FUTURE (Future Urban Research in Europe), http://www.urban-future.net/, Sverige.
4–2007
  • AHH conference CONTESTATIONS: Ex-Jugoslavia: Looking at neighbouring concepts, workshop and lecture, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1–2007
  • Presentation of paper Human traffic in/from Istanbul and chair of one part of the conference Public sphere Istanbul, Bauhaus University Weimar. Part of roundtable about Sustainable action in relation to culture, Nürnberg, Deutschland.
11–2006
  • Chair at APPROACH, roundtable meeting of international performance artists, I CONFESS, Switch Room, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
10–2006
  • Chair at FAQ, Trauma, memory and counter-memory in relation to space, Culturlann, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
5–2006
  • Performative events in public space, University of Art Berlin-Weissensee in cooperation with office of Public Art Berlin.
4–2006
  • Urban Social Space, Conference of the city development in Jena, Deutschland.
11–2005
  • Art in the social realm, University of Applied Science, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.
6–2004
  • Art/Activism/ Civil society, with Lael Klime/Jerusalem, ACC Gallery Weimar.
1–2004
  • The true, good and beautiful, between art and working reality, University assel, Deutschland.
11–2003
  • Introduction of my art practice, Loft, Istanbul.
2003
  • Art is something for rich people, my mother said, symposium art and economy, Werketage Berlin. Working Situation, lecture, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Deutschland.
  • The model of selfgeneration, Goldrausch Künstlerinnen-Projekt, Berlin.

EDUCACIÓN/EDUCATION

2004
  • Four months training course for Civil Conflict Transformation / Civil Peace Service, Academy for Conflict Transformation, ForumZFD.
1999
  • Goldrausch, artist project grant, professionalisation programme for female artists, Berlin.
  • Since 1996 Working as a freelance artist.
1990-96
  • University Erlangen / Nuremberg and Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Master Student in Fine Arts.
1993
  • Guest semester at Universidad Complutense, Madrid/Spain, Art and Spanish, Madrid.

PREMIOS Y SUBVENCIONES/AWARDS AND GRANTS

2009
  • Self-Arranged Residency to Madrid, Arts Council Northern Ireland.
2008–9
  • Travel grant, Arts Council Northern Ireland to Mae Sot at the Thai Burmese Border, Thailand.
2008
  • Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin.
  • Invitation to AGENCY* to live one week in Gropiusstadt to develop a site specific project.
2007
  • Visiting Arts grant, Henry Moore Foundation/ Arts Council Northern Ireland/ Scottish Arts Council/ British Council for the one week performative event APPROPRIATE in collaboration with Alma Suljevic, (Sarajevo), Marilyn Arsem (Boston) and Sandra Johnston (Belfast).
2006
  • Percentage of Art Commission, Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin (invited to submit an idea and model).
2003
  • Cultural exchange grant for Istanbul, Turkey from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture. Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin.
  • A project developed by Birgit Anna Schumacher & Uwe Jonas. Invitation, to live one week in Gropiusstadt to develop a site specific project.
2001
  • Working grant from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture.
2000
  • Project grant from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture.
1998
  • Residency in Nicaragua, office of international affairs, Nuremberg 3 months in San Carlos, Nicaragua. With Almut Determeyer.
1998
  • Klinik, Morphing Systems (collaboration with Stephan Kurr), Zurich, Swiss (Cat.).
  • Invitation to develop a site-specific work in an abandoned hospital. project curated by Teresa Chen, Dorothea Wimmer and Tristian Kobler.
1997
  • Award of the Foundation Fine Arts Nürnberg.
1995
  • Germinations Europe, residency for European artists in Poland.
1993
  • Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria, workshop with Nan Goldin, financed by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture.

TRABAJOS EN COLECCIONES/WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

2009
  • Brae Art Centre, Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

CATÁLOGOS/CATALOGUES

2009
  • Istanbul/Berlin fellows1998-2009, sourcebook, Berlin, pg 82-87 (Cat. Exp.). 200 Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin, pg 12-14 (Cat. Exp.).
2008
  • Yearbook of Bauhaus University Weimar, pg. 148-163 Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway, 111 Artists Reveal Their Passion, Published by 泥人laiyanprojects & Studio Bibliothèque, HongKong, Edited by Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwe Public Istanbul - Spaces and Spheres of the Urban Edited by Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt and Dr. Kathrin Wildner, Transcript, Frankfurt.
  • Des/IRE, Designing Houses for Contemporary Ireland, Gandon Editions / National Sculpture Factory Cork, Ireland.
2007
  • Rubin, 40 Years of Institute of Contemprory Art Nürnberg. Istanbul Dergisi, Magazine, edition May 2007 Istanbul Dergisi, Magazine, edition Sept. 2007 The art of creating the Tomorrow, Spaceshuttle catalogue, Belfast Im Dienst der Sache, stadtkunst magazine, Berlin. Shifting the Stereotypes, Visual Artists' News Sheet, Issue 1.
2006
  • Schnittstelle Kommunikation, book about communication in art, Berlin.
  • Lock your mind, Istanbul-Berlin project in 2004 (Cat. Exp.).
2005
  • Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin (Cat. Exp.).
2004
  • Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin (Cat. Exp.).
2002
  • Sox36, programme 2000–2002, catalogue about the projects URTUX, art as utopia, Yearbook of the Institute of Moderne Art Nürnberg. 2000–2002 Kunstcoop©, book about pilotproject artist do art-mediation/-education/ communication at the NGBK, Berlin.
  • WährungsTausch, catalogue from exhibition at Städtische Gallery Fürth (Cat. Exp.).
1998
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz U2, catalogue from competition art at the subway, 12 selected projects, (Cat. Exp.). Sozialmaschine Geld, Kunst.Positionen, catalogue from exhibition about money at the O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art Linz, Austria, (Cat. Exp.).
  • Restpfennigaktion, broschure about the project in public space Morphing, catalogue from exhibtion in abandonned hospital in Zurich, Suisse.
1996
  • Isswas, Bavarian American Hotel, Nürnberg (Cat. Exp.).
  • Germinations 9 (Cat. Exp.). 1996/97 Kunst Raum Franken, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Cat. Exp.).

RESEÑAS/REVIEWS

2009
  • The Pre-History of Crisis II, Sunday Times, 3rd August 2009 The Pre-History of Crisis II, BBC Radio Ulster, 10 min Interview, 7th July 2009 CNN Turk, 9.4.2009.
  • Liane Thau, Bilder vom Alltag und ein Jubilaeum, Die Kitzinger, 27.3.2009. Aivers, Aine, A Report on Interface Summer School: Open Space Technology Training, Belfast, 10th - 16th of September 2008, Visual Artists' News Sheet, Issue 1, 2009. 2008 Scala, radio feature about my work in Belfast, WDR 3, Deutschland.
2007
  • Joan Fowler, High Stakes, Visual Artists' News Sheet, Issue 6, 2007, pg 23 Cherie Driver/ Anne Marie Dillon, On and on, Visual Artists' News Sheet, Issue 5, 2007, pg 10.
2004
  • Roswitha Buchner, „Hic bir yer gidememek', Bayrischer Rundfunk, Sept. 2004. Stefan Strauss, Thailändische Schmusesongs im Neuköllner Fahrstuhl, Berliner Zeitung, 24.08.2004. Meike Jansen, Einblick (57), TAZ Berlin, S. 28, 04.08.200 M. Reichelt Philip Wiegands »Bar« und die Geschichte des sox36, Kunstforum International, pg 263 ff, Köln.
2002
  • 5,3 Tonnen Pfennige sind 50 0000 Euro, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 28.06.2002, pg 42. Wahjudi, Claudia Die Münzmanagerin, Zitty / Kunst, 9/2002, pg 83. 2001 Falk, Sabine Wunschproduktion, kunststadt, stadtkunst, Nr. 47/2001, Berlin, pg 23. Schmidt, Peter Von der Potenz der Restpfennige, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 8/2001, pg 56. Wagner, Thomas »Restpfennig«, FAZ, 31.12.2001, Feuilleton. 1999 Das Fidericianum Magazin, Kunstverein und Kunsthalle Kassel, Heft 3, Herbst 1999, pg 32 ff 1998 Kunstforum International, Bd. 149, S.108-109, Köln. Blättner, M. »Restpfennigaktion«, Kunstforum International, S.414-15, Bd. 140, Köln.

BIBLIOGRAFÍA/BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006
  • Weimar Day-to-Day (co-editor with Prof. Liz Bachhuber) Verlag der Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Liebe Mariela, catalogue text for Mariela Limerutti.
2005
  • Schiller goes public (co-editor with Prof. Liz Bachhuber) Verlag der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
2003
  • Restpfennigaktion, book about the project in public space, including the collection of 1601 wishes, text contributions from Claudia Wahjudi, Dr. Volker Volkholz (sociology), Prof. F.B. Simon (psychology and economist), 314 pages, published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Restpfennigaktion, poster about the project in public space.
1997
  • Walking through society, Yearbook of the Institute of Moderne Art Nuremberg 1997 in collaboration with Christina Jacoby.